Note to Newt: Back Off Harry Knox! by Candace Gingrich

[Political Tiger]

Newt, you've really gone beyond the pale this time.

Earlier this week, as a guest on Greta Van Susteren's show on the Fox News Channel, my brother referred to Harry Knox as "an anti-religious, left-wing zealot." Newt was responding to Harry's recent appointment to President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

I know Harry Knox. We work together at the Human Rights Campaign, where Harry serves as director of the Religion and Faith Program. He is a person of great wisdom who deserves his appointment.

He is also someone I am honored to call a dear friend. When my brother Newt attacks Harry, he's attacking me. And I don't take too kindly to bullies.

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It's fitting that Newt, whose name is synonymous with divisiveness, would assail someone who unites people as adeptly as Harry Knox. Under his leadership, HRC has developed a national speakers' bureau that reaches more than 10 million Americans monthly and a weekly preaching resource that provides scriptural commentary to ministers and lay people interested in an ecumenical LGBT perspective on the Bible. He has also been instrumental in creating a national network for progressive state clergy coalitions around the country.

That is incredibly scary for those who rely on distorted messages of faith to incite fear and justify discrimination. Right-wing voices like my brother's use faith to manipulate people into voting against their interests by scapegoating the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Come on, Newt--get with the program. We're not so bad!

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/candace-gingrich/note-to-newt-back-off-har_b_185113.html

[acmavm]

1. That's gonna leave a mark.

[alarimer]

2. I wonder what holidays are like in that family.

Or do they simply never get together (I wouldn't if my brother was Newt Gingrich.)

[Enthusiast]

3. I didn't know of Harry Knox but

I'm now a fan. Anyone Newt denigrates is worthy of praise in my opinion. Newt is a scab on the puss filled wound created by the Neo-Con zealots.